As communities across Northern Ireland celebrate, there are calls for understanding, education, tolerance and respect ...

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite warnings over asbestos on the site.

Firefighters in Northern Ireland faced a "challenging" night as multiple bonfires were lit ahead of 12 July celebrations, ...

Elsewhere, effigies of the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags and sectarian slogans were burned on pyres across Northern Ireland.

Eleventh night bonfires have been lit across Northern Ireland, including at a controversial site in south Belfast. The fires are lit every year as part of celebrations in some unionist areas, ahead of ...

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said that a contentious loyalist bonfire in south Belfast should not be set alight. Fresh safety concerns have been raised over asbestos at the ...

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency says fragments of suspected asbestos were found at five locations on the site at ...

Concerns have been raised over the bonfire, which is on a site which contains asbestos and is close to an electricity substation.

Tensions are continuing to smoulder around two loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland which have attracted significant controversy.